Lane Garrison celebrated his 28th birthday behind bars and his good friend Jessica Simpson send him a gift to mark the occasion. Jessica can't visit Lane, who's currently serving his sentence for DUI at a facility in Corcoran, California, because she would create a security risk. But she didn't forget him - Jessica WANTED to send him an iPod, but it wasn't allowed, so she sent him a practical gift: a hundred postage stamps. Lane often calls Jessica collect from prison and he likes to fill the empty hours by writing letters.

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This is how Jessica Simpson dressed to attend meetings in the fashion district of New York. She must have stuck out like a sore thumb because you don't see many New Yorkers walking around like this.

When John Mayer was dating Jessica Simpson he turned her on to his secret weapon - Hollywood trainer Harley Pasternak. Jessica loved Harley's workouts and continued to train with him after she and John split. Now that John has taken up with Minka Kelly (star of Friday Night Lights) he couldn't help but introduce Harley to Minka also. That left Harley training John, Jessica, AND Minka, he had to be extremely careful to juggle his schedule to keep their appointments FAR apart. Eventually Jessica decided the situation was too awkward and she found another trainer.

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Even Jessica Simpson can get cranky once in awhile. Recently she was booked on a New York to Nashville flight and the plane crew was told "She's running late- she had a rough night." The crew expected her to arrive with a raging hangover and were prepared to handle her with kid gloves. Simpson was hustled on the plane at the last minute with her bossy assistant leading the way. Jessica looked exhausted, her eyes were noticeably bloodshot, and she avoided interacting with anyone. A flight attendant gently advised her to fasten her seatbelt and Jessica moaned in exasperation and snapped "I'll DO it before we take off!" Her assistant made a lot of demands, but Jess slept for the entire flight and nobody dared speak to her.

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Jessica Simpson HAS been spending lot of time with Owen Wilson, but her dad Joe wants Owen out of the picture. Jessica has been insisting to Joe that she and Owen are just friends and he needs friends right now. But when they're not together, Owen keeps in close touch by calling or messaging Jessica frequently. Joe is planning a big comeback for Jessica and he feels she wastes time getting too involved in her "relationships" and neglects her own career. Joe is very aware of the fact that Jessica falls for guys who are needy and Owen fits the description.

SOMEBODY does not look thrilled to be going to New York for Fashion Week. Maybe Jessica's puppy hates flying as much as we do. But of course, the pooch has an expensive carrying case and probably a first class seat, so this dog's life isn't so bad.

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Jessica Simpson had a lazy Saturday afternoon- she beat the heat by shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Jessica, clad in a colorful athletic shirt, shorts, and a pony tail, and her brunette girlfriend picked up a few items in the cosmetic department and then went upstairs to the café. They relaxed with a glass of wine, giggling, texting, and gossiping. When the server returned to offer refills, Jessica gleefully instructed him to fill the wineglasses ALL the way up. After their considerable refreshments, the girls descended upon the designer department and checked out the fall collections. Jessica was still chomping her gum when she left.

Clerks and shoppers alike were thrilled when Jessica Simpson and her sister Ashlee walked into Beauty Collection Apothecary in Calabasas. Jessica browsed in the hair department and squealed "Oh, you guys carry my stuff!" The store features her clip-on hair extensions that sell for under $100. She lifted her hair and showed the salesgirl "See, I've got them on!" The salespeople were impressed that she actually uses her own product. Jessica did, however, invest in some expensive Epicurean skin care products, even though she's a Proactiv spokesperson.

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Jessica Simpson is heartbroken because her romantic summer plans have gone awry. She starts filming Major Movie Star in June in Shreveport, Louisiana. In this comedy she plays a struggling acttress who enlists in the Marines. Hey - didn't Goldie Hawn already do that movie? She had hoped to rent a big house in Shreveport and have John Mayer share it with her. Fantasies of warm southern nights under the stars and afternoon barbecues filled her head. But John told her it's out of the question - he's way too busy working this summer. He'll try to visit when he can, but that's the best he can do.

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Jessica Simpson walked out of a Mexican restaurant last night in this tight top and we realize our earlier comment about her looking "voluptuous" was on the money. She looks pretty but definitely bigger than she was before she hooked up with John Mayer on his tour. We imagine that during those weeks on the road she succumbed to backstage temptation and roadside gluttony. Sometimes love does that to you. Now that she's back home, she'll make up for it in the gym.

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Jessica Simpson has a look of contentment she hasn't had since her marriage ended. She was in a clothing store recently when a John Mayer song started playing. She stopped in her tracks and almost swooned. "I can't believe this- I think we're really meant to be - it's fate." She made her feelings about Mayer very clear to her friend and assorted salespeople. The other night at Winston's she looked pretty and more voluptuous than usual, but she was clearly wishing John was with her.

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Jessica Simpson and John Mayer are eating like an old married couple. They brought a bunch of friends to Citizen Smith late last night and health food was NOT on their minds. The couple ordered cocktails and bar food- plenty of jalapeno mac and cheese for the table, as well as frozen hot chocolates and buffalo smiths ( chicken strips.) No one was counting carbs or calories. They're already starting to look alike.

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Why was Jessica Simpson so charley-horsed when she got back from her trip to Rome with John Mayer? After they had lunch in West Hollywood she found herself in need a physical tune-up right away and rushed off to the Hahm Rejuvenation Center on 3rd Street. It's not a plastic surgery office - it's a place where you can get acupuncture and shiatsu massage. Adrien Brody, Winona Ryder , Courtney Love, and Menu Suvari get their kinks taken out there. An hour later Jess walked OUT feeling better, but her euphoric mood turned sour when fifty photographers surrounded her like hounds around a fox. She actually yelled at them and accused them of being rude as she drove off.

Are we crazy or are Jessica Simpson and John Mayer starting to look alike? Jess has darkened her hair and it looks like she dragged him to her tanning salon at least once. His usually pasty skin has a bronze glow. Jessica has also ditched her colorful sexy wardrobe and suddenly she's wearing black like you know who. Couples DO start to look alike after awhile, but this pair is moving fast.

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It was not a glamorous day for Jessica Simpson. She had lunch on Sunset Plaza at Le Petit Four with her assistant, and then she got caught in the rain on the way to her car.

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It was a fun weekend for Jessica Simpson - dark clouds have lifted and she's HAPPY again! Jess, sporting her new reddish hair, and sister Ashlee partied at after hours club Xenii Saturday night and their table was the place to be. The O.C. cast hung out with the sisters and Jessica happily greeted everyone and danced all night - mostly with Adam Brody. She spend so much time comingling with Adam that people started to speculate about them. Ray J and Ja Rule couldn't resist joining the Simpson's raucous group. At 3 AM Jessica got a craving for french fries - she sent an assistant to get some. A big box of fries was plopped in the middle of their table and everyone dug in. Jessica had so much fun that she and her sister didn't leave until 5 AM.

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There was no sign of Jessica's sometime boyfriend John Mayer when Jessica Simpson and her sister Ashlee arrived arm in arm at Le Deux last week. Interesting how Ashlee is morphing into her sister - they're wearing the same lipcolor, but Ashlee is TANNER and has LONGER EXTENSIONS than Jessica....

There's nothing we like better than a celebrity making fun of another celebrity. Napolean Dynamite's Haylie Duff and a girlfriend were browsing in Beauty Collection in Sherman Oaks when they came upon a display of Jessica Simpson's clip-on hair extensions. Haylie squealed "Will you look at that POUT in every picture - trying SO hard to look sexy!" and she stuck out her lower lip and mimicked Jessica's mouth. They both laughed and Haylie picked up a shank of the fake hair and held it to her head "How could she put her NAME on something like this?" "For the MONEY, that's how!" the friend informed her, as they walked away giggling.

Is Jessica Simpson doing an imitation of Anna Nicole Smith for her new Pizza commercial? That's supposedly where this picture came from. At first glance, we thought this WAS Anna, but it would have to have been before the Trim-Spa REALLY kicked in. Not very flattering - we're curious to see the what this ad is going to look like.

NOW we know why Jessica Simpson was in TEARS at the Kennedy Center Honors. She had just found out about Lane Garrison's tragic auto accident. (One teenage male passenger was killed and two girls were injured.) Lane was like a brother to her - they grew up in the same town and when he had problems at home, he went to live with Jessica's dad Joe Simpson when he was a teenager. Simpson helped make Lane a star like he did his daughters. And Lane loved being famous. When he went to Ralph's Saturday night to buy pita chips, two teen girls saw him and got VERY excited. They begged him to come to their high school party to impress their friends. Lane couldn't resist the flattery. Just how much he had to drink before and during the party will be apparent when his blood test results come back. When Lane wanted to leave, the girls begged the boy who was killed to come along because they were a little afraid of Lane. The joy ride ended abruptly when his SUV crashed into a tree. Acquaintances of Lane are predicting that the blood test will show more than alcohol was in his system. Right now Lane's in hiding and Jessica is still distraught.

If you noticed that Jessica Simpson's lips don't match the words she's saying in her TV ad for DirectTV, we've got the answer. The ad is a take-off on her movie The Dukes of Hazzard, but we've been told she didn't have to work very hard for the money. No dieting or working out this time around. Instead of having Jessica stuff herself into her old Daisy Dukes and recreating the scene, the ad people took a clip from the movie and simply changed the dialog. We're not implying Jessica would have a HARD TIME squeezing herself into those tiny shorts now, BUT she admitted it took months of torturous working out to do it for the movie.

Is ANYBODY surprised to learn that Jessica Simpson's father Joe is probably making tons of money from photographs of his daughters? Joe has some kind of deal with the biggest photo agency WireImage, according to Jeannette Walls - he might give them inside tips about photo ops or give them his own family photos to be sold. Either way he makes a bundle and as we have pointed out, he's not the only celebrity's relative to cash in.Of course many celebs want a cut of photo money for themselves - like Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Harry Morton, Kate Hudson, Nicole Richie and Brody Jenner (and MANY more.) They ALL set up photo ops and take a cut of the profits. One of the few NOT under suspicion is Jennifer Aniston - she doesn't need the money OR the publicity. And her photos are worth the MOST!

Okay, sometimes we get tired of looking at pictures of photogenic Jessica Simpson - because there are SO many of them around ! But we can't get enough of her little Maltipoo Daisy - in this pic Daisy seems to be pointing Jessica in the right direction. We doubt that it's toward John Mayer.

We feel it's our duty to warn newly divorced and vulnerable Jessica Simpson to proceed with caution in her budding romance with John Mayer. Although he's not a social climber like Kristin Cavallari, few people realize what a potent casanova the soulful singer is. Those big tender brown eyes hide the same predatory tendancies Warren Beatty was once noted for. He KNOWS what women want. Girls who SWOON over his love songs don't exactly put up a fight, so John's batting average is alarming high. Let's hope Jessica keeps her wits about her and keeps an eye out for warning signs.

It's not fun being accused of having a fake bottom! Jessica Simpson suffered that indignity when she was flaunting her backside in daisy dukes in The Dukes of Hazzard. Ricky Martin was also accused of enhancing his backside by adding padding to his jeans, when he was on tour a few years ago. (He immediately hit the gym and built up an impressive genuine butt. ) Latest to be accused is Victoria Beckham whose apparently curvy backside is featured in fragrance ads with her husband David. Brits claim it looks like Jennifer Lopez's lush bottom has been electronically grafted onto Victoria's svelte body. Do you agree?

Jessica Simpson is putting on a happy face but she seems like she's longing for romance in her life. Her people called one of Jessica's favorite restaurants - Koi - the other night and ordered food ahead because they would be arriving after 11. Among other things, they ordered Jessica's favorite albacore tuna with onions, and black cod with crispy rice. Apparently she had just wrapped filming some TV special and wanted to celebrate. Jessica was overdressed in a long red gown and arrived with her assistant and her hairdresser Ken Paves and five or six others. Everybody tried to keep Jessica happy and they ordered a festive platter of desserts and cake for the table. She barely nibbled at the food and couldn't help but notice how happy Lindsay Lohan looked sitting with her boyfriend Harry Morton at another table. Being divorced in Hollywood isn't easy.

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Here's Jessica Simpson dashing through LAX to catch a New York flight Monday. She's got her Maltese Daisy in her brand new Vuitton carrying case and the dog looks a bit worried. For good reason. On a recent airport visit Jessica carried her constant companion Daisy in her arms and when she reached the security area, absentmindedly plopped the pup down with her handbag on the conveyor belt to be x-rayed! Security pointed out her error and scooped up Daisy in the nick of time. Now her pooch travels in high style and observers say Daisy (named after her Dukes of Hazzard character) is a filling the void where Nick used to be.

On Wednesday June 28, Jessica Simpson started preparing for the holiday weekend with a fake tan - of course. She was waiting her turn in the lobby of the Uvasun tanning salon in West Hollywood and picked up a magazine on the table. As she was flipping through the pages she suddenly let out a squeal and blurted out "I'M NOT DIVORCED YET!" She tossed the weekly back on the table clucking "They're wrong - they ALWAYS get it wrong!" But it didn't dampen her spirits. She laughed and joked with other customers before getting her tanning bed and liquid sun combo so she's bikini ready for the weekend. (Two day later the divorce apparently WAS final, according to US Weekly.)

Has Jessica Simpson's stylist TURNED on her - or did she take a day OFF? Jessica recently showed up in New York of all places, brandishing what looks like a big Hawaiian fish print sarong wrapped around her, accompanied by thick brown sensible shoes and a large slouchy bag. Worst of all, the get-up makes her look POUNDS heavier than she is. Oh well, she's still a beauty, and everyone has a lapse in taste once in a while...

Thanks to Jessica Simpson, the hottest trainer at Sports Club LA in Beverly Hills is Mike Alexander. He still puts Jessica through her paces several times a week, often at the gym. Jessica's workouts HARDLY go unnoticed- girls are standing in line for personal training from Jessica's guy Mike. A gym member noted "Mike is the talk of the gym. He has every hour filled- a lot of women want Jessica's 'Dukes of Hazzard"'body. They all hope to look like her"
"Mike isn't gouging his clients � he still charges $75 per hour IF you can get an appointment. "
The gym member says "The funny thing is you can hear his clients asking 'Is this the same thing Jessica does for her butt?' Or you can hear Mike pushing them 'TEN more repititions- � JESSICA wouldn't complain about this!'"

Jessica Simpson has been busy dashing from one store to another promoting her new shoe collection. Two hundred fans waited in line for hours at Nordstrom at the Grove, and Jessica finally stumbled in the door complaining that her feet were killing her! She was teetering in red patent slingback high heels (from her collection) and was heard muttering "Geez- these hurt more than the other ones!"
Could it be she hadn't tried on her own line of shoes before? Salespeople were perplexed because Jessica's fans are mostly around 14, but her shoes are platforms with six inch heels sexy, and better suited to strippers than teens. Mothers were heard warning their daughters that they could get autographs, but NO shoes. According to a store clerk , some of the Jessica shoes sold have already been returned because they're "too uncomfortable. "

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